System and method for establishing communications between mobile stations

A method of increasing system capacity in a network comprising:

• at a mobile station:
• receiving a user update to a list of user preferences wherein the list of user preference specifies services to which the mobile station will accept and will not accept and conditions for acceptance;
• receiving a page request;
• comparing the page request to the updated list of user preferences to determine whether the page request corresponds to a service for which the user preference is outdated;
• when the user preference is outdated, appending a non-acceptance message to a page response wherein the non-acceptance message includes the updated list of user preferences.

A device for increasing the system capacity in a network comprising:

• a receiver having an input to receive a page request message;
• a transmitter having an output;
• and
• a controller coupled to the receiver and the transmitter, the controller programmed to receiving a user update to a list of user preferences wherein the list of user preference specifies services to which a mobile station will accept and will not accept and conditions for acceptance;
• receiving a page request at the input of the receiver and comparing page request to the updated list of user preferences to determine whether the page request corresponds to a service on the updated list of user preference and to determine if the list of user preferences is outdated, the controller being further programmed to append a non-acceptance message to a page response whenever the user preference is outdated and transmit the page response and non-acceptance message at the output of the transmitter to an infrastructure element and wherein the non-acceptance message includes the updated list of user preferences.